Day 3 (afternoon) - Lake Matheson

Lake Matheson (photo from google)

It was 10 mins drive from our holiday park in Fox Glacier to the magnificient mirro like Lake Matheson. According to the tourism broucher, this lake has combined exactly the right ingredients to create truly stunning reflections of New Zealan's highest peaks - Aoraki (Mt.Cook) and Mount Tasman. The lake were formed 14,000 years ago. So excited to see this lake....

The waters of Lake Matheson are darks brown, so on a calm day they create the ideal reflective surface. Unfortunately, when we arrived Lake Matheson, the sky was not clear enough to create mountains reflections on the lake. There was a walking track from the car park to round the lake, and it toke 1.5 hours a round trip. The track continues through ancient native forest, the fern trees are every way to a pontoon that extends out onto the lake.

Crossing a bridge above the creek. Mirro reflection lake Matheson

The sky is not so clear... Fern Leave Fern trees along the walking track. Feel like jungle tracking.